| Dan Simmons |
So I'm wandering around Centre Hall at Wabash College and Placher encounters me. He asks, "Do you want to do an interview with Dan Simmons?"
"Who?" I respond with typical sophmoric intelligence.
"Dan Simmons." -- "You read science fiction, don't you?"
At the time, I did. -- And I still do. Whether that is a statement out of pride or simply fact I leave as an exercise for the reader. The fact is that I had a copy of Hyperion thrust into my hand and two days to prepare for an interview to go into our Humanities Journal, Callimachus.
I read the novel, and found myself suitably impressed. I was not alone. About five months later the novel was nominated for and won the Hugo award.
With this web site I intend to provide a good collection of information and resources about Dan Simmons and his work. If you have anything related to Dan Simmons which you believe I might find useful or informative, please contact me.
[Sun Feb 24 14:20:57 PST 2002]: Update!: The Official Dan Simmons website is up and running. It can be found at the URL: http://www.dansimmons.com.
[Fri Feb 1 07:58:18 PST 2002]: Update!: In addition to Simmons publishing A Winter Haunting (William Morrow & Co.; ISBN: 0380978865) this month, he will be releasing a collection of novellas entitled Worlds Enough and Time in March from Subterranean Press. A trade paperback will be released in October by a larger publisher. The novellas in the book include "Looking For Kelly Dahl", "Orphans of the Helix", "The Ninth of Av", "On K2 With Kanakaredes", and "The End of Gravity."
[Mon Oct 9 12:49:56 PDT 2000]: The Dan Simmons web site mentioned earlier this year has disappeared -- as did the contest that went with it. According to one source, the site was taken down due to content disagreement between Simmons and the web designer. Simmons hopes to have the site up and running sometime this month.
[Mon Oct 9 10:10:14 CST 2000]: Simmons will be touring in
support of Darwin's Blade (William Morrow & Co.; ISBN: 0380973693) up and down the west coast. The book was originally scheduled for an April, 2000 release, but was pushed back to August, and then November. William Morrow has just released the book, October 5th, 2000. Including stops in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. For a complete list of tour dates, check with Harper Collins.
[Thu Jul 6 21:10:25 CST 2000]: Simmons has announced a forthcoming novella, "The Ninth of Av," which will appear in a science fiction anthology edited by Rober Silverberg, entitled Destination: 3001.
[Thu Jul 6 21:10:25 CST 2000]: Simmons' formerly "pseudonymous" novel will be published under his name. It is entitled Hardcase. Early reports indicate that it will be a piece of crime fiction.
[Thu Jul 6 21:10:25 CST 2000]: Darwin's Blade is scheduled for release in November.
[Thu Jul 2 12:00:00 CST 2000]: The Hyperion novella "Orphans of the Helix" won a Locus Award this weekend.
[Tue Feb 1 12:51:21 CST 2000]: Locus Magazine reported that Simmons sold two SF novels to AvonEos. They will be entitled Illium and Olympos, and they will be "high concept, science-fictional retellings" of The Illiad and The Odyssey.
[Tue Feb 1 12:38:28 CST 2000]: The Dan Simmons Web Site is up as a prototype. But it does include some information about upcomming works, as well as an interesting contest.
[Tue Feb 1 12:42:55 CST 2000]: January 31st, 1999, Simmons turned in a unscheduled and unanticipated novel to his agent. The book -- for reasons of other contracts and schedules -- may be published under a pseudonym -- a first for Simmons. "I challenge readers to ferret it out," says Simmons. There are, he says, a few clues in the text to tip off the discerning reader. The first reader to identify the book and to contact the Dan Simmons Website will receive a prize of a still-in-shrinkwrap, first-printing, limited edition, Dark Harvest copy of Carrion Comfort
[Tue Feb 1 12:31:56 CST 2000]: Darwin's Blade ( Avon; ISBN: 0380973693) scheduled for release in April, 2000, has had its release date pushed back to August, 2000. Simmons has described the book as "an exploration of the bottomless depths of stupidity, primarily in how people kill themselves, a la the Darwin Awards, which most net-savvy folks know about. But it's also a book about insurance fraud in California, which is now being organized by the Russian Mafia, and about the science of accident reconstruction."
[Tue May 18 18:50:23 CDT 1999]:
Robert Silverberg's anthology, Far Horizons (Avon; ISBN 0380976307) was released May 4th. This anthology includes a Hyperion novella from Dan Simmons about the Spectrum Helix people entitled "Orphans Of The Helix." [Ed.: Thanks to Eli Chiaviello for this information.]
[Wed Mar 10 14:23:52 CST 1999]: The "official" transcript of Event Horizon's Flashpoint chat with Dan Simmons (which has been liberally edited for coherence) is now available at: http://www.eventhorizon.com/sfzine/chats/transcripts/022599.html.
[Fri Feb 26 11:41:31 CST 1999]: Dan Simmons appeared as Event Horizon's Flashpoint guest in online chat. A transcript of the event is available, online. He discussed The Crook Factory, and several new projects, including his screenplay for Children of the Night and two new ideas for novels: The Great Oven and The Hounds of Winter.[Thu Feb 25 10:12:50 CST 1999]: Negative Spaces, a new nonfiction chapbook (both trade paperback and limited edition hardcover) collecting two pieces of Simmons' nonfiction is due out in May from Subterranean Press.
[Tue Feb 9 11:57:35 CST 1999]:
The Crook Factory (Avon; ISBN: 0380973685) has been released! Dan Simmons' latest novel is historical fiction: an account of Ernest Hemingway's ring of spies in 1942 Cuba.
Dan Simmons was Event Horizon's Flashpoint guest Thursday, February 25th 10-11:30 pm ET. He talked about his new novel The Crook Factory. A transcript of the event is available.
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